Creative Business

Scholarships Available

2 Years - Beaconsfield/London Full-time

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Application deadline 4 Jul 2024

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Creative Business

COURSE OVERVIEW

The creative alternative to an MBA.

Would you like to start your own creative business? This course gives you all the tools to launch the media businesses of the future – whether in games, film, TV, theatre, film, television, music or digital entertainment.

You will meet dozens of major players from every sector of entertainment across a busy, two-year MA. You'll learn the basics of industry operations - from how to have winning creative ideas to business models, to marketing, raising finance, digital distribution, legal agreements, talent, technology and more.

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Ali Rasoul outside the NFTS

"I came to change career to the creative industries. The course helped me to understand how this market works and supported me to start my own networking in this field."

Isabel Vigorito
2022 graduate

"I often reflect on the value this course has added to my business. It brought me on an in-depth learning journey, from forming a company through to understanding how to scale it up."

Ali Rasoul
Current student

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The course is taught by players from across the creative industries. It comprises two days per week of tutor-led seminars. These are combined with reading, assignment work, and self-led research tasks to be conducted outside the classroom in the student’s own time. You not only learn from the best – but also have the chance to develop a superb network of contacts that can last a lifetime, and the opportunity to pitch projects to experienced investors in the second year.

Creative Business makes the most of both the thriving NFTS campus in Beaconsfield, and our office in the heart of London's Soho, right where many entertainment firms are located. That means you’ll benefit not only from London’s ‘global hub’ but also the School’s state-of-the-art facilities. We've designed the MA to allow students to study while pursuing their own business interests throughout the course.

Funding Available

The NFTS awards more scholarships and bursaries to British students, relative to the size of our student body, than almost any other educational institution in the UK. If you’re successful at gaining a place on the course, you will be contacted by our funding team with details on how to apply for one of these scholarships.

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Hear from digital entrepreneur (and previously Head of Creative Business) Dr Alex Connock about the Creative Business MA course.

Graduate Success

NFTS graduates are equipped to pursue careers across filmmaking, television production, advertising and more. Graduates have gone on to set up their own companies, produce award winning films and succeed across the creative business sector.

Recent credits and successes include...

Nick Horrowitz

Director, Photographer and Founder of independent creative studio and production house, The Clerkenwell Brothers.

Clients: Little Moons, Garnier, HOMETHINGS, Zapp

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Graduate Success

NFTS graduates are equipped to pursue careers across filmmaking, television production, advertising and more. Graduates have gone on to set up their own companies, produce award winning films and succeed across the creative business sector.

Recent credits and successes include...

La Chimera

Cannes 2023 Official Selection

Producer Carlo Cresto-Dina

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Graduate Success

NFTS graduates are equipped to pursue careers across filmmaking, television production, advertising and more. Graduates have gone on to set up their own companies, produce award winning films and succeed across the creative business sector.

Recent credits and successes include...

JoJo Rabbit

Producer Carthew Neal

Jojo Rabbit poster

Graduate Success

NFTS graduates are equipped to pursue careers across filmmaking, television production, advertising and more. Graduates have gone on to set up their own companies, produce award winning films and succeed across the creative business sector.

Recent credits and successes include...

Anna Bogutskaya

Freelance Writer, Host and Broadcaster, Co-Founder of horror film collective The Final Girls and Festival Director of Underwire Festival.

Underwire festival poster